The probable presidential candidacy of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will blast apart whatever credibility is left of our idiotic campaign financing laws, with their tax-code-like complexity.
In rattling the cup for his nascent Senate campaign, Mr. Giuliani has sent out letters that hint of a Red Menace lurking in the candidacy of his probable opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
After apologizing for not taking up an invitation to speak to the group last year, because his campaign was on the ropes at the time, he explained, he went straight into a panegyric for his probable opponent and the historical significance of his candidacy.
Yet it seems probable that support by emerging markets for Mr Azevêdo's candidacy was motivated in part by a sense of shared interests.That could spell trouble for the global negotiations.
But in Alaska, where another woman, Lt. Gov. Fran Ulmer, is the probable Democratic nominee, Republicans are likely to recapture the governorship with the candidacy of Senator Frank H. Murkowski.
(NYT) THE REFORM PARTY BUCHANAN ON ARIZONA BALLOT -- Patrick J. Buchanan, the probable Reform Party presidential nominee, filed for a spot on the Arizona ballot on Monday, pressing to extend his candidacy to all 50 states.
The big question is whether he'll be plausible in Nov. The weakness of the two parties' probable nominees, and Perot's willingness to spend at least $100,000,000 of his own money are reasons to take his candidacy seriously.
He withdrew his candidacy.
